Be Still and Know That I Am God: Lessons from (Formerly) Blind Bartimaeus

MESSAGE DELIVERD AT OVERCOMING CHURCH HARVEST CELEBRATION | October 1, 2017

Your Defining Moment: “Be Still and Know that I am God”

Lessons from Blind Bartimaeus  |  By Pastor Bryan Hudson

Luke 18:35-43 

35 Then it happened, as He was coming near Jericho, that a certain blind man sat by the road begging. 36 And hearing a multitude passing by, he asked what it meant. 37 So they told him that Jesus of Nazareth was passing by. 38 And he cried out, saying, “Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!” 39 Then those who went before warned him that he should be quiet; but he cried out all the more, “Son of David, have mercy on me!” 40 So Jesus stood still and commanded him to be brought to Him. And when he had come near, He asked him, 41 saying, “What do you want Me to do for you?” He said, “Lord, that I may receive my sight.” 42 Then Jesus said to him, “Receive your sight; your faith has made you well.” 43 And immediately he received his sight, and followed Him, glorifying God. And all the people, when they saw it, gave praise to God.

Considering all the natural, social, and political disasters, you might think, “The devil is busy and sin is abounding!” 

God’s people maintain a Kingdom perspective: The Word of God says in Romans 5:20 “…But where sin abounded, grace abounded much more.

We need to disconnect from the madness all around us, be still, and rediscover God. The dictionary defines “re-discovery” as “recovering something good that you had forgotten or lost is the fact or process of becoming aware of it again or finding it again.”